IT for firms that bill by the hour and can't afford to lose one.
Consultancies, architects, engineers, HR advisers, recruiters: your product is expertise, delivered by people who need their laptop, their email and their files to just work, wherever they are. Foundry runs the technology behind the firm so your people spend their hours on clients, not on IT.
Sound familiar?
Common patterns in the working week of professional-services firms, written the way they tend to sound. They are illustrations, not quotes from clients. If more than one of these is your week, keep reading.
- A consultant is on a client site and the VPN has decided it doesn't recognise them.
- There are four versions of the proposal and nobody knows which one went to the client.
- A contractor finished six months ago and still has access to the shared drive.
- We moved to Teams but half the firm still emails attachments to themselves.
- Every new hire starts with a day of waiting for accounts and a borrowed laptop.
Your environment
What the business actually depends on.
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace as the centre of everything
- Large project files, drawings or candidate databases shared across teams
- Specialist software: CAD, BIM, HR, recruitment CRM, project tools
- A mix of employees, associates and contractors needing access
- Hybrid working from home, office and client sites
- Client deliverables and confidential data sent by email
Your risks
Security, compliance, availability and data.
- Contractors and leavers keeping access to client data
- Email compromise leading to fraudulent invoices in your name
- Losing project files to ransomware or an untested backup
- Client confidentiality obligations in contracts and NDAs
- Cyber-insurance and client security questionnaires you can't answer
- Downtime that bills nobody and costs everybody
Your problems
The IT frustrations these businesses run into.
- Whoever is most technical becomes the IT department
- Onboarding and offboarding take days and are never quite finished
- Files are everywhere: email, drives, laptops, personal cloud accounts
- Clients ask for your security posture and you have nothing written down
- Licences are bought per crisis and never reviewed
The Foundry solution
Foundry becomes the firm's technology department. Identity and access run properly so starters are ready on day one and leavers, including contractors, are gone the same day. Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace configured so files live in one place with the right permissions. Every laptop managed and protected. Backups tested. And a secure client workspace for deliverables that shouldn't live in inboxes. When a client sends a security questionnaire, you'll have answers.
Your Foundry stack
The capabilities of the platform that matter most for professional-services firms, and what each one is for. Take what you need.
Foundry Support
→ Helpdesk, laptops managed and patched, starters, leavers and contractors
Foundry Connect
→ Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, email, files, identity, cloud phones
Foundry Secure
→ MFA, EDR, email security, patching, access control, Cyber Essentials
Foundry Portal
→ Branded client workspace for reports, drawings and candidate documents
Foundry Cloud
→ Cloud servers for CAD, BIM and specialist tools, workspace backup, tested recovery
Foundry Web
→ Domain in your name, DNS, website hosting, certificates, WAF